Bug#595452: mplayer: Fails to play recent Matroska (MKV) files: "Track 1 has been compressed with an unknown/unsupported compression algorithm (3)"

Sun Sep 5 09:30:20 UTC 2010

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:16:28 (CEST), Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:44:38PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> BTW, I can reproduce this error with rc4 by forcing the native mkv muxer
>> with the opten '-demuxer mkv'.
>> 
>> This means that this bug is not fixed in rc4 at all, but just masked
>> by using lavf by default!
>
> Note that there is a patch pending for it in the MPlayer dev list
> (and a few more as well). Unfortunately the patch submitter "disappeared"
> and I would have preferred to let him apply himself.

For what specifically? fixing the native mkv muxer or switching the
default?

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4